Strategy Planning in Japanese Local Software Firms: Global and Local Perspective

东京都市圈以外的日本本土软件公司在市场和技术风险方面面临更大的不确定性。本研究探讨本土软件企业在工程师人力资本投资的策略与模式。分析包括从本地和全球的角度来评估日本的软件生产系统的产业集群的能力。本研究评估商业模式的获利能力与人力资本的累积过程，并验证商业生态系统的功能。案例研究包括冲绳的远程软件开发过程、中国大连的国际合作软件生产系统和冲绳的软件测试业务。

Japanese local software firms outside of the Tokyo metropolitan area face higher uncertainties , in terms of market and technical risks . This study examines the strategies of local software firms and their patterns of human capital investment in respect of engineers. The analysis includes an assessment of the competence of Japanese industrial clusters of software producing systems from both local and global perspectives. The study evaluates the profitability of business models and the accumulation processes of human capital, and verifies the functions of business ecosystems. The case studies are the remote software development process in Okinawa, the international cooperative software producing system in Dalian, China, and the software testing business in Okinawa.